A prism. Silvina Ocampo by Mariana Enriquez

Abstract

The article proposes a reading of La hermana menor. Un retrato de Silvina Ocampo by Mariana Enriquez. It begins by reconstructing and analyzing how the legend of the writer is plotted in the 80’s and the change of focus that this legend experiences since her death. It examines what Enriquez does with this knowledge (what she selects, what she adds, how she articulates it), conjectures about the reasons why the biographer insists on stating that she wrote a profile and not a biography, and reflects on the place that the narration of life grants Ocampo's work.